A series of moderate earthquakes shook Iran on Thursday but there were no immediate reports of victims or damage. An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale has once again jolted Soomar city, a district …
The recent unrest in Iran-during which the authorities disrupted Iranians’ access to the internet and blocked major social media networks used by the protesters-demonstrates that the Iranian government’s decade-long effort to control the internet in …
Turkey has summoned the ambassadors of Russia and Iran to protest the Assad regime’s violations of de-escalation zone borders in Syria’s Idlib in recent days, the Turkish foreign ministry said Tuesday as quoted by Daily …
The Iranian company whose oil tanker burst into flames after a collision in the East China Sea said on Wednesday there is still hope of finding survivors as 31 crew members remain missing and rescue …
Kurdish cross-border porters, kolbars, will be issued with smart cards in a bid to regulate the semi-legal profession, the governor of Iran’s West Azerbaijan province revealed as quoted by Kurdish media network Rudaw. Some 50,000 …
The head of Israel’s spy agency said Tuesday that the current protests in Iran were unlikely to topple the regime and warned that massive Iranian-backed forces were “galloping into the Middle East without hindrance” to …
The lives of more than 5,000 prisoners on death row in Iran could be spared as a change in the law abolishes capital punishment for some drug-trafficking offenses, The Guardian reports. Iran is second only …
Germany has summoned Iran’s ambassador in Berlin to warn Tehran against spying on individuals and groups with close ties to Israel, saying such acts violate German law, RFERL reports. News of the meeting came out …
A senior American political analyst and author said Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei is “correct” to say that the recent protests in Iran were directed from abroad, noting that the rioters …
In June 2017, nearly two dozen Chinese, protected by a Pakistani security detail conducted surveys and took soil samples in areas west of the Pakistani port of Gwadar near the Iranian border, suggesting the possibility …
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